The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet
https://fortune.com/asia/2024/02/21/jaiwon-shin-ceo-hyundai-electric-air-taxi-subsidiary-flying-by-2028-batteries-not-there-yet/
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
...they think they'll be flying them within 4 years despite battery tech being a fair way off? Huh?
stoy@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 2y
Gotta pretend for the shareholders
uzay@infosec.pub · 18 pts · 2y
2028 conveniently is just far enough away for us to have forgotten all about those claims by then
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
That's how visionaire-ism works!
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
The Elon strategy.
"FSD in two years..."
"Mars landing by 2024..."
Wanderer@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y
If a vote come to ban this in my city I'd go knock on doors and try get as much support for banning them as I can.
DarkenLM@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Sign my petition, damn it!
LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
No thanks . Cars are already super noisy . So a glorified quadcopter ...
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 11 pts · 2y
rich people with too much money pretending to have a problem to solve. most people arent using the helicopters this use case covers
this is just bored rich people building stuff they think is cool, most of which is a dead end
rem26_art@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y
and in 2029 TikTok teens are gonna be stealing them with USB drives
Deceptichum@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
“We”?
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Himself, and other CEOs of multinational conglomerates.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Hydrogen might actually make sense for these, since you need extreme energy density. But I doubt they'll be very widespread because of airspace restrictions and faa approval. I don't see how they'd be that much more common than city helicopters are now.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y
Oh the humanity...
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 2y
eran_morad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
Paris will ban them before thier release lol
darthsid@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 2y
Yeah maybe if the wars in the world subside.
stoy@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 2y
If anything, wars are an amazing source of technological advancement.
This is not to say that I want war, but to acknowledge the fact that it absolutely fuel innovation
Deceptichum@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Broken window fallacy.
The same funds used to pay for wars and wartime rnd could just be spent directly on rnd.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Could be, but usually aren't.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
That is fair, I mainly wanted to counter the claim that wars won't advance tech